June 25, 2016: We were at the Morris-Jumel Mansion for the Romance Festival, where we met several romance writers and heard panel discussions on topics ranging from contemporary and historical romance to BDSM.

June 18, 2016: We had a great time at the 34th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade with our friend and artist, Jim Su. Jim is mentioned for his body painting in the Metropolicks chapter, "Me Horny, You Available?" Checkout some of Jim's artwork.

Mermaid sightings at the parade included: a Wonder Woman mermaid, a Mermaid off duty, and Barbie mermaids. We also saw a creative "Sponge Bob" and a Starfish Wars group! Checkout our album below to see some of the amazing costumes we saw at the parade.

Album: The Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2016

Being an indie author is about more than just being an author. As an indie author you've go to do EVERYTHING! After writing the book there's copyediting, page layout, cover design, and if you so choose, ebook conversion. Once the book is ready to be out there, indie authors then need to move into a very different phase of promotion, marketing, and sales. With Metropolicks, we definitely do it ALL ourselves. We are our own publishers, editors, publicists, marketers, sales force and social media team. And we've also produced and directed videos, managed photo shoots and multi-media events to promote Metropolicks.

Indie authors have to be resourceful, determined, trouble shooters and a sort of MacGyver* to figure things out, in order "to make things work for you."

After receiving the first printed proof copies of Metropolicks in April, each of us painstakingly went through and copyedited the manuscript for the umpteenth time, going through each and every page of the book, scrutinizing every word down to the letter, every piece of punctuation, formatting, layout and spacing issues. Doing all this was no small feat since it turns out that Metropolicks is over 600 pages in print! It was very sobering to discover several new grammatical, typographical and copyediting issues. We also did a few minor re-writes.

On top of this, we have also had to deal with a number of print quality issues related to photographs that we have inside of both books and on the front and back covers. All that being said, we can only say that our journey to get our books into print continues...

*MacGyver was the name of a 1980's television series, in which the main character, Angus MacGyver, a secret agent uses his encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences to solve complex problems by making things out of ordinary objects with his ever-present Swiss Army knife.

June 12, 2016: Today was the 59th Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, a New York City tradition, and the first major parade that unofficially marks the beginning of the summer. It's one of New York City's most popular parades and was mentioned in the summer events section of The Metropolicks We Call New York City: A Guide for Singles. Now that summer is here you'll definitely want to check out our guide to find out about all of the fun events and things to to in New York City. The summer events section is the largest section of our guide!

Album: The 2016 National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City

Look what came in the mail today- the first printed proof copy of Metropolicks. We are so thrilled to have this baby in our hands finally! Now we just have to get through the final round of edits and soon it will be available in print for the public. It's incredible to see it out in the world and how it's measured up to be 614 pages!

We had a lot of fun at our reading at Babeland's SoHo location last week!

Photo courtesy of Kristen Perez

We had a great crowd. Thanks to everyone new and familiar who came out to hear us and special thanks to Babeland for hosting us!

We had a lot of fun reading juicy excerpts from the chapters: Uninhibited, Men Who Love Blow Jobs and the Women Who Love Them, Warning Labels and Every Woman Is Different.

If you haven't already picked up your copy of Metropolicks, you can read the chapters Warning Labels and Men Who Love Blow Jobs and the Women Who Love Them for free by clicking HERE since they were a part of the 30 Days of Metropolicks campaign. But to read Uninhibited and Every Woman is Different, you'll have to buy the book.

A few lucky raffle winners won copies of the print version of Metropolicks, which will be going to press soon. And one member of our audience was so enthusiastic about the book that she wanted to take a crack at reading an excerpt herself.

In the evening we attended The New York Press Club event "An Evening with Charles Osgood." Charles Osgood is the long time host of CBS Sunday Morning. He was interviewed by Steve Scott, anchor for CBS New Radio. It was a fascinating conversation. Questions posed by the audience ranged from what he thinks has contributed to the longevity of his career to why he prefers wearing bow ties.

That's the beauty of an ebook- that we can change things like this 1-2-3. The first version was created by co-author Felicia Lin who admittedly is not a graphic designer and so she sought to rectify the situation. If you've already downloaded a copy of the book, what are you waiting for? Download it again from Amazon HERE to get this new version.

Special thanks to George Madarasz who created the new cover and to Maggie Law for all of the photos that appear on the front, back and inside of the book.

We are so thrilled that The Metropolicks We Call New York City: A Guide for Singles has made it to #1 on the AMAZON BEST SELLERS TOP 100 FREE ebooks in its category, and to #3 on the best Kindle Short Reads TODAY! There's definitely been a lot of work behind the scenes to get us to this point, but we really want to THANK all of our fans, readers and supporters. Without your help we would not have gotten there!

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